In 2026, it's New Year's Eve in the Year of the Horse.
An archaeological team that went deep into the "Burning Horse River" site in the northwest mysteriously disappeared after discovering a bronze talisman engraved with the words "Bingwu Royal Horse Prison". The only remaining clue is the chilling warning in the diary of the leader, Professor Wang: "Don't look into their eyes."
Veteran Chen Chuan and archaeologist Lin Wan were ordered to investigate. On the night of arrival, just after midnight, the sound of horse hooves sounded as dense as a rainstorm around the camp, and strange bare hoof marks appeared on the ground. On the tent canvas, there were only shadows of cavalry formations - no entities, no light sources, only peeping from the depths of darkness.
They were forced to step into the robbery cave, only to find that what was waiting deep in the tomb passage was a horror that subverted their cognition: the tomb of Zhu Youzhen, the king of Zhenxi in the Ming Dynasty, was actually a "yin arsenal" that used living people to refine figurines. Every sixty years, when the stars of the Bingwu Year of the Horse return, the three thousand pottery horsemen in the tomb will partially wake up. What's even more frightening is that the archaeological team members have appeared in the queue of pottery figurines...
The time curse has begun. From New Year's Eve to Lantern Festival, within fifteen days, as the star power becomes stronger, the Yin soldiers will be fully revived. Chen Chuan and Lin Wan must uncover the bloody truth behind the "Bingwu Ban" while hunting ancient mechanisms and activated pottery figurines, and completely destroy this life-devouring tomb before the next cycle of reincarnation begins.
However, when they finally approached the core, they discovered that the deepest terror did not come from the depths of the tomb——
But everyone who steps into the Burying Horse River may become a new member of the Yin soldiers.
Because in this tomb, "leaving alive" this person
Reader comments
The plot has twists and turns, and it's not bad. It's probably been a long time since I've read such a wonderful novel after Tomb Raiders, especially in the later stages.
The plot has twists and turns, and it's not bad. It's probably been a long time since I've read such a wonderful novel after Tomb Raiders, especially in the later stages.